The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a History of the House of Commons, and of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs of the United Kingdom ...Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816 - Administrative and political divisions |
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... LAND , the Author feels most sensibly the responsibility he has imposed upon himself ; and , to acquit himself in the faithful dis- charge of his duty , he has had recourse to the best authorities he could obtain ; and the result proves ...
... LAND , the Author feels most sensibly the responsibility he has imposed upon himself ; and , to acquit himself in the faithful dis- charge of his duty , he has had recourse to the best authorities he could obtain ; and the result proves ...
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... land , situate near the present site of Con- stantinople , " over the misty sea , " probably the German Ocean , into Britain ; this appears to have been from about eight hundred to a thousand years prior to the Christian æra , taking ...
... land , situate near the present site of Con- stantinople , " over the misty sea , " probably the German Ocean , into Britain ; this appears to have been from about eight hundred to a thousand years prior to the Christian æra , taking ...
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... land for his future sustenance . The political divisions of territory among the Britons were the Cantrw , and the Cymwd or Comot , the compound word used in the Saxon Witena- gemote , each of which had its particular court . The Cantrw ...
... land for his future sustenance . The political divisions of territory among the Britons were the Cantrw , and the Cymwd or Comot , the compound word used in the Saxon Witena- gemote , each of which had its particular court . The Cantrw ...
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... land , or maintenance of five free acres , and his presentation and privilege of Pencenedyl , or head of a tribe , as well as every other right belonging to a congenial Cymro . There were three privileged high seats , in the original ...
... land , or maintenance of five free acres , and his presentation and privilege of Pencenedyl , or head of a tribe , as well as every other right belonging to a congenial Cymro . There were three privileged high seats , in the original ...
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... lands once their own , but which the Norman lords , their task- masters , held in capite under the king , as a reward for assisting him to reduce their country under his oppressive usurpation . Such was the strong sense the Britons ...
... lands once their own , but which the Norman lords , their task- masters , held in capite under the king , as a reward for assisting him to reduce their country under his oppressive usurpation . Such was the strong sense the Britons ...
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Page 325 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament; and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained...
Page 362 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 135 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR BE DISSEISED OF HIS FREEHOLD, OR LIBERTIES, OR FREE CUSTOMS, OR BE OUTLAWED, OR EXILED, OR ANY OTHERWISE DESTROYED ; NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR SEND UPON HIM, BUT BY LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Page 119 - that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services.
Page 422 - ... he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges, as essential to the impartial administration of justice ; as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of his subjects; and as most conducive to the honour of the crown.
Page 135 - John, the variations not being very material) shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or. any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.* We will sell to no man, we will not deny, or delay to any man justice or right.
Page 238 - England, of the which most part was of people of small substance, and of no value, whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires dwelling within the same counties, whereby...
Page 321 - ... hath and of right ought to have freedom of speech, to propound, treat, reason, and bring to conclusion the same; and that the Commons in parliament have like liberty and freedom to treat of these matters in such order as in their judgments shall seem fittest...
Page 404 - ... as well as by offers of money; that sums were given for this purpose; that pensions, offices, and releases of debts owing to the crown were actually granted to peers who concurred in voting for this list, and to their relations; that on the day of election a battalion of his majesty's troops...